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author | sheldonh <sheldonh@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-03-01 14:50:24 +0000 |
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committer | sheldonh <sheldonh@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-03-01 14:50:24 +0000 |
commit | b45b9e3cde3c8b803fc2c4fbdb784fc378ced24d (patch) | |
tree | 0b7d3487005ae5a1da0062d675a3bf21249410eb /share/man/man4/fdc.4 | |
parent | 46cac19efdca36bb719c540488e5b984e7370eca (diff) | |
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Remove single-space hard sentence breaks. These degrade the quality
of the typeset output, tend to make diffs harder to read and provide
bad examples for new-comers to mdoc.
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diff --git a/share/man/man4/fdc.4 b/share/man/man4/fdc.4 index 4b109b4..9ad3931 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/fdc.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/fdc.4 @@ -39,13 +39,16 @@ PC architecture floppy disk controller driver .Cd device fd1 at fdc0 drive 1 .Sh DESCRIPTION This driver provides access to floppy disk drives and QIC40/80 tapedrives. -In /dev for each floppy device a number of minor devices are present. The +In /dev for each floppy device a number of minor devices are present. +The /dev/fd* devices with trailing alphabetic characters are used to indicate .Sq partitions -on the floppy disk. The /dev/fd*.<number> are devices that +on the floppy disk. +The /dev/fd*.<number> are devices that indicate the size of the floppy disk (so: 720kB, 1440kB etc). The latter are used for formatting disks using fdformat or for accessing different -density disks in multidensity drive. Example: 720kB disk in a 1.44Mb drive. +density disks in multidensity drive. +Example: 720kB disk in a 1.44Mb drive. .Pp Normally, the driver will ask the system's CMOS memory to obtain the floppy drive configuration. Some machines do not store any form of a |